National Affairs: Heavy-Caliber Cover-Up

When Dwight Eisenhower came home from Korea he said that "certain
[military] problems of supply have reached rather serious proportions
and require early correction." New and indirect light was thrown on
this cryptic statement last week. Pentagon reporters were summoned to a
special press conference by the Army's Major General William Oliver
Reeder, deputy assistant chief of staff for logistics (G-4).
Ostensibly, the conference was called to discuss a "1952 Procurement
Report." But reporters soon detected the real reason for the
conference. Army's G-4 knew that Ike had come upon a carefully...